How to Use Gel Makeup for Halloween

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is John Mays. Some people refer to me as “Evil” John Mays. I’m a makeup effects artist and I’m here doing a demonstration for Expertvillage.com. Notice the thermostat here, right at about 120-140 degrees - that’s the melting temperature. It’s best to wait a second before you put it on the actor at that point. We have our gelatin based makeup at a melted point right now, so we’re going to dab this on to the different tapes, kind of make them go away. Notice this stuff is kind of flesh tone and it blends in with her own skin. We’ll come back with some makeup to kind of give a little variation to it, add some freckles and things, but it’s covering up the tape, it’s making it go away and this is not going to be flat anyway because she’s got a screw driven through her face. Unfortunately, with the gel stuff, you only have a fine amount of time you can mess with it because as you can tell, as it starts to get back to room temperature it starts to drag. Now you’ll notice with the gelatin you can see the color of it is causing the color of the tape just to disappear into her face. When we get some more of it heated up, we’ll go ahead and add a little more to make a more smooth effect to it and just keep working it until it all looks sufficiently distressed. "